Stephen Birkett wrote: >There is a wonderful (almost modern scale) piano c1856...perhaps ones of >Del's exceptions. It is probably one of the finest pianos in existence, >and certainly a commercial dead-end from a design perspective. It is >straight-strung, with sb grain perpendicular to the case direction, ribs >almost parallel to the sb in places...most certainly could not have been >compression crowned. It's current condition literally shocks any modern >pianist who plays it...it is so good it blows everybody away. Original >board. Who made it?? Where is it?? What kind of terminations and counterbearings does it have? Is the action fairly normal, or something that has disappeared now? You've studied how it can sound like that? Are there others like it? I feel like one of Ron's "lerts". Susan Susan Kline P.O. Box 1651 Philomath, OR 97370 skline@proaxis.com "I'm glad that there are at least some things somewhere that I don't have to do today." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
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